Voter registration organization will mail out 75,000 forms this week to Nevadans as part of nationwide drive
The Voter Participation Center is preparing to send out 75,000 voter registration forms this week in Nevada as part of its second voter registration mailing of 2018.
The voter registration mailing will focus on people of color, young people and unmarried women — what the center describes as the Rising American Electorate — and target 2.2 million people across 20 states. The organization already has sent a total of 7.2 million registration forms this cycle since September 2017 in what it describes as its “most comprehensive program to date.”
“More than 400,000 people of color, unmarried women and millennials aren’t registered in Nevada, which means they aren’t able to have their voices heard in our democracy,” said Page Gardner, founder and president of the Voter Participation Center, in a statement.
From those mailers, the center has gotten 187,000 people to register to vote by mail and online so far, including 81,000 millennials, 91,000 unmarried women and 109,000 people of color. Since the organization was founded, it has registered nearly 4 million people to vote, including 47,000 in Nevada.
The Voter Participation Center anticipates a drop off of about 309,000 members of the Rising American Electorate in Nevada between 2016 and 2018. The state saw one of the biggest gains among that group of voters — 139,158 people or 24.8 percent — between 2012 and 2016.
In Nevada, the Rising American Electorate makes up 62.7 percent of the eligible voting population and 59.3 percent of total registered voters, with 34.4 percent of them not registered. Of the eligible voting population in Nevada, unmarried women make up 25 percent, African Americans make up 8.6 percent, Latinos make up 17.5 percent and millennials make up 29.9 percent.